I dampened my own enthusiasm about the prospect of getting better classroom space and new buildings by pondering simplicity as a Christian virtue or discipline.

And sometime late Thursday or early Friday a visitor to this blog clicked on one of its posts or pages, the 10,000th time that’s happened in the not that long or storied history of The Pietist Schoolman. Thanks for reading and commenting!

Elsewhere

Mark Galli

Mark Galli offered a defense of an evangelicalism that trusts in the guidance of the Holy Spirit rather than the authority of a magisterium to guide us to truth and unity. See also my colleague Chris Armstrong’s take on that essay: largely affirming Galli’s argument, but also correcting a careless generalization about medieval Christianity.

Galli’s remarks started with the phenomenon of evangelical scholars like Christian Smith and Francis Beckwith converting to Catholicism. Joe Carter considers the lesser known but increasingly common trend of Catholics becoming Southern Baptists.

“War cannot be explained as it is a condition of human sinfulness; it can only be endured.” So noted James Kushinerin drawing attention to a couple of new books on World War I. (Can’t wait for 2014 to see the flood of scholarship unleashed for the centennial!)

What do you do with a History major? You start a Twitter account dedicated to Tweeting through the entire history of the Second World War, day by day for six years. At least, that’s what you do if you’re Oxford graduate Alwyn Collinson. He’s currently in November 1939, so I was all ready to say something snarky about Tweeting your way through the “Sitzkrieg,” but then I learned that on this day [I’m writing on Friday] in 1939 the Dutch passenger ship S.S. Simon Bolivar ran into a mine in the English Channel and sank, causing over 100 casualties. So check it out — you’ll learn more than you ever thought you could know about WWII! (H/T Diana Magnuson!)

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